Jennifer Lawrence eyeing directorial debut

Texas (COT): Lawrence has signed up for a forthcoming project, tentatively titled ‘Project Delirium’, for her debut as a director. With Academy Awards and the title of highest paid female actor in Hollywood to her name, Jennifer Lawrence is now sizing up a role on the other side of the camera, saying that she’s weighing up the possibility of a directorialdebut in the near future. Revealing to Entertainment Weekly that she’s sizing up a dark comedy with the working title of Project Delirium, based on real events, she said: “I’d also like to direct a comedy. I have wanted to direct as long as I’ve wanted to act. I just don’t talk about it because I’d rather just do it.” Speaking more about the movie idea itself, the 25 year old actor said: “I’ve signed on to direct something called Project Delirium - it’s based on this article about mental warfare in the ’60s, like an acid experiment gone terribly wrong.” The piece she refers to was published in the New Yorker in 2012, and describes military doctors running experiments on soldiers during the Cold War.